Extinction of the programmer species means for me that I lost a few years of my life and now I have to change my carreer.
If it happened, but it hasn't.
To succeed as a programmer, develop better powers of discernment (by observing others you respect) and learn how to maintain confidence in your decisions.
"The idea is that you play punting games to keep your Neopet fed and healthy. If you don't gamble, or worse, lose on the punt, your Neopet starves or is sent off to an orphanage."
Karl Marx and Charles Dickens wrote about that before MacDonalds worked it out.
"These are the most significant storage announcements we have made in more than a decade. IBM is focused on being the storage innovator and clear technology leader," said Dan Colby, General Manager, IBM Storage Systems. "Today, we are delivering new economics and choice by leveraging common components, breakthrough technologies from mainframes and supercomputers, and unmatched virtualization and management capabilities."
Most significant in a decade? New economics? Wow, this is too important for Slashdot. Somebody should call Time magazine. Or Newsweek.
These batteries may be well and truly needed in a couple of years for mobile devices. Moore's law, ubiquitous connectivity and the development of data services and content will make phones a platform that need more power from the same amount of weight.
calling him the "inventor" of the web is like calling Sir Isaac Newton the "inventor" of gravity!
Are you sure about that? Gravity was around before Newton and has no inventor. Contrast this with the www, which was transported to Earth by alien craft.
The *world* and humans in it are the arbiters of varying degrees of truth and linkage. Any generic attempt to encode the world is probably going to fail.
I think when you say "generic" you mean "explicit", but you don't give a reason for predicting "failure".
As John Von Neumann put it so elegantly, "Perhaps the simplest model of the world, is its self".
That isn't very portable or manageable. Von Neumann invented a practical architecture for representing discreet subsets of the world, including tax returns, plane tickets and celebrity gossip. For those kinds of things, simple text search is useful for humans but imperfect for computers; semantic enrichment addresses the imperfection precisely to make text accessible to computerized logic.
People can't bother making their pages w3c complaint (even slashdot)
You can complain all you like to W3C, they won't make Slashdot compliant. For Slashdot to become compliant, first of all it has to want to become compliant. Well, before that, there has to be standards to comply to, and W3C has given us those.
But did you know that Slashdot isn't the only web site? Tens of millions of web sites are W3C compliant or close enough that the web functions.
That is a great achievement by W3C.
For semantic web to gain adoption, there has to be benefits and then the infrastructure has to be built. We have a clear view of the benefits already, but only part of the infrastructure.
The part that exists - TCP/IP is going great.
The part that doesn't exist yet - a fully standards compliant web browser - isn't being funded by any of the companies that can afford to implement it because they already have cash cow franchises.
But the semantic web creates new opportunities, and when the old men who capitalized on earlier opportunities are dead or retired or superceded, the semantic web will emerge.
maybe I misread your posts intentions but it seemed like you were going for the "Bush has killed more innocent Iraqis than Hussein ever had" and I generally hear that from people who are overly liberal and try to use it as justification to why the war was wrong.
That's not me. I was asking for stats so that I could make up my own mind about the benefits of the American initiative in Iraq.
Do you think President Bush would know those stats about Iraqi deaths?
"We have seen a pretty rapid shift in the style of threats by hackers as they focus more on key-logging and phishing scams for financial gain," he said.
Oh really? Is Symantec able to quantify an increase in the number of "hackers seeking financial gain" that would qualify the headline of the article? I don't see any stats.
"Companies using e-commerce also retain a lot of data about customers, account numbers and personal information, and a lot of smaller businesses conducting transactions online don't put the money into security, so they become easy targets," said Donovan.
Oh. So businesses should give money to Symantec, right?
you know, the information visualization/presentation guy [edwardtufte.com], might like their display
Aspects of it are elegant, such as the histogram along the bottom edge. The main text display is
I think the opposite of what Tufte would advocate. "Less is more", says Tufte. The Flash UI adds nothing there except limitations to display and performance so do without.
Slashdot Mirror
The zaurus is one of those devices that almost was and still can be the killer device.
Killer? You mean, widely adopted?
For what?
Extinction of the programmer species means for me that I lost a few years of my life and now I have to change my carreer.
If it happened, but it hasn't.
To succeed as a programmer, develop better powers of discernment (by observing others you respect) and learn how to maintain confidence in your decisions.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3
Interesting sig. I think you may mean Mr. Spock, unless the advice comes from Baby and Child Care .
"The idea is that you play punting games to keep your Neopet fed and healthy. If you don't gamble, or worse, lose on the punt, your Neopet starves or is sent off to an orphanage."
Karl Marx and Charles Dickens wrote about that before MacDonalds worked it out.
Would you be happier...
What if some hobo goes through the trash cans at the back of the hospital looking for food and ends up eating the thawed embryonic stem cells?
What if the hobo shit them out and you stepped in it? Would that suit you better than saving Michael J Foxes life?
Diebold, Diebold, and Diebold
What's your assessment of the risks related to the use of electronic voting machines
The risks come not from electronicness or mechanization, but from the people who design evil systems and implement them in the name of democracy.
"These are the most significant storage announcements we have made in more than a decade. IBM is focused on being the storage innovator and clear technology leader," said Dan Colby, General Manager, IBM Storage Systems. "Today, we are delivering new economics and choice by leveraging common components, breakthrough technologies from mainframes and supercomputers, and unmatched virtualization and management capabilities."
Most significant in a decade? New economics? Wow, this is too important for Slashdot. Somebody should call Time magazine. Or Newsweek.
These batteries may be well and truly needed in a couple of years for mobile devices. Moore's law, ubiquitous connectivity and the development of data services and content will make phones a platform that need more power from the same amount of weight.
These are already popular in parts of the USA.
the BBC is funded by the British government
I think you mean the British people.
Big projects require organization or shit happens.
Uh, that's it. Thrilled?
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Treat that stuff with respect.Soylent Blue Corp.
PDF doesn't suck
Are you sure?
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Ramachandran's optical illusions
Johansson's point-light walker (Flash animation).
calling him the "inventor" of the web is like calling Sir Isaac Newton the "inventor" of gravity!
Are you sure about that? Gravity was around before Newton and has no inventor. Contrast this with the www, which was transported to Earth by alien craft.
The *world* and humans in it are the arbiters of varying degrees of truth and linkage. Any generic attempt to encode the world is probably going to fail.
I think when you say "generic" you mean "explicit", but you don't give a reason for predicting "failure".As John Von Neumann put it so elegantly, "Perhaps the simplest model of the world, is its self".
That isn't very portable or manageable. Von Neumann invented a practical architecture for representing discreet subsets of the world, including tax returns, plane tickets and celebrity gossip. For those kinds of things, simple text search is useful for humans but imperfect for computers; semantic enrichment addresses the imperfection precisely to make text accessible to computerized logic.
People can't bother making their pages w3c complaint (even slashdot)
You can complain all you like to W3C, they won't make Slashdot compliant. For Slashdot to become compliant, first of all it has to want to become compliant. Well, before that, there has to be standards to comply to, and W3C has given us those.
But did you know that Slashdot isn't the only web site? Tens of millions of web sites are W3C compliant or close enough that the web functions.
That is a great achievement by W3C.
For semantic web to gain adoption, there has to be benefits and then the infrastructure has to be built. We have a clear view of the benefits already, but only part of the infrastructure.
The part that exists - TCP/IP is going great.
The part that doesn't exist yet - a fully standards compliant web browser - isn't being funded by any of the companies that can afford to implement it because they already have cash cow franchises.
But the semantic web creates new opportunities, and when the old men who capitalized on earlier opportunities are dead or retired or superceded, the semantic web will emerge.
The rest of us call this... GOOGLE.
Google searches undifferentiated text. In contrast, the semantic web is all about differentiating text by adding meta tags.
For example, the word "Hilton" on a web page is ambiguous. It could be a hotel, or a celebrity. Which is it? With the semantic web we'd know:
Of course, this is a fairly trivial example. A more meaningful example:
maybe I misread your posts intentions but it seemed like you were going for the "Bush has killed more innocent Iraqis than Hussein ever had" and I generally hear that from people who are overly liberal and try to use it as justification to why the war was wrong.
That's not me. I was asking for stats so that I could make up my own mind about the benefits of the American initiative in Iraq.
Do you think President Bush would know those stats about Iraqi deaths?
Does he publish them somewhere?
don't try and pull this bleeding heart crap
Not sure what you are identifying as that. Could you elaborate?
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How many innocent people have died in Iraq in each of the following years?And the winner is?.
"We have seen a pretty rapid shift in the style of threats by hackers as they focus more on key-logging and phishing scams for financial gain," he said.
Oh really? Is Symantec able to quantify an increase in the number of "hackers seeking financial gain" that would qualify the headline of the article? I don't see any stats.
"Companies using e-commerce also retain a lot of data about customers, account numbers and personal information, and a lot of smaller businesses conducting transactions online don't put the money into security, so they become easy targets," said Donovan.
Oh. So businesses should give money to Symantec, right?you know, the information visualization/presentation guy [edwardtufte.com], might like their display
Aspects of it are elegant, such as the histogram along the bottom edge. The main text display is I think the opposite of what Tufte would advocate. "Less is more", says Tufte. The Flash UI adds nothing there except limitations to display and performance so do without.
That has to be the coolest use of Flash
It is a cool idea and it has been implemented with Flash.
I'd like to see it implemented without Flash. What is cool would then be more accessible and available faster. That would be more compelling.